Monthly Archives: March 2009
Security Consultant Turned Hacker Gets Prison for Running Botnet
A 27-year-old Los Angeles man has been hit with a four-year sentence in connection with his role in infecting as many as 250,000 computers...
Asus Unveils Intel Atom-Powered Eee Netbooks, Keyboard PC
Computer marker Asus let loose with a barrage of innovative product announcements this week at the annual CeBIT conference in Hannover, Germany, including the...
Google, BlackBerry Enthusiast Is Obama’s CIO Choice
President Obama March 5 named Vivek Kundra, CTO for the District of Columbia, as his administration's CIO. As CIO, Kundra will direct the policy...
Microsoft Windows Vista SP2 Rollout Broadens
Microsoft announced that anyone interested in testing the Release Candidate of Service Pack 2 for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 could now do...
A New Frontier: Extending Mass-Customized to the Operating System
My wife recently took the plunge and bought a new car. She spent time mulling the options online, and then chose the color and...
Protect Yourself from IT Staff Abuse: How to Manage Privileged Identities
Over the past couple of years, there has been an endless stream of statistics about insider threat. However, the vast majority of IT security...
Google Enables Profile Sharing for Google Health
Google has upgraded its Google Health solution, now allowing users to share their medical records and other personal health information with doctors, family members...
AMD, Intel and Nvidia Shifting Away from Integrated Graphics
Advanced Micro Devices, Nvidia, Intel, Via and other chip makers are seeing diminishing demand for traditional integrated graphics processors used in laptops and desktops,...
IBM Adds Informix Data Warehouse Feature to Bolster Database Software
IBM is looking to enhance the data warehousing capabilities of Informix Dynamic Server with a new feature aimed at easing design and deployment.The Informix...
How to Optimize the Energy Efficiency of Your Server – 1
Everyone is looking at their data center efficiency and trying to quantify it and improve it. Of course, there are actually two separate groups...